Help Guides

Breeding fish can be one of the most rewarding sides of the hobby. Some fish like Guppies breed readily whereas others may spawn and you won’t even know.

Setting up a new tank can be a minefield of information and advice will vary from person to person, store to store, book, magazine, to the internet.

Cichlids are some of the most popular and fascinating of all tropical freshwater fish, but they can be tricky to keep, so how do you set up a Cichlid tank?

Fish pollute water, but they are not adapted to live in their own waste. The only way we can keep aquariums is by way of biological filtration, and water changes.

Our tropical fish come from all over the world. Some stay tiny like the diminutive Pygmy rasbora, while others grow huge like Redtail catfish, but which can live together?

Any koi is only worth what someone will pay for it, but one Japanese show winning fish sold for £1.4 million pounds.

Neon tetras are small tropical freshwater fish, and are one of the most popular community fish in the hobby, so how do we take care of them?

Cyanobacteria is the technical term for slime algae. It’s not in fact algae at all its a bacteria, but it looks and behaves in a similar way.

No one likes a stinky aquarium and for some, it can make them feel positively sick! Here are some of the causes and how to fix them.